Chapter 198 The Fate of The World
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This was the present-day occurrence, and the world was still in turmoil as riots erupted everywhere. Many countries were even going through a brutal French Revolution-style change, and the carnage going on could realistically set humanity back many years at once.
What made the android send plenty of red alerts to Dante recently was that the base AI had deliberately foiled many attempts by various countries to unleash the nukes. After all, the elites who were about to be killed and even implicate their families no longer cared about martial virtue.
"If you want to kill me, then everyone shall die with me!!" This is what they roared as they entered the nuclear codes and pushed the button with bloodshot eyes full of hatred. But their entire minds collapsed the next second when the nukes did not activate at all. After all, the systems of the world belonged to Dante, and no technology could work without his permission.
Dante passed a hand through his hair and sighed. It was amazing how destructive humanity could be to its own benefit. However, he also blamed himself for being too naive in thinking he could emulate those urban novel protagonists who easily changed the world.
In order to change the world as it was, one had to account for so many things that martial power alone could not solve. Unless you could mass brainwash the entire world, there would be endless troubles in taking over, whether through the shadows or through the light.
Interestingly, Dante had the power to do exactly that. In fact, he had a wealth of options laid out before him, various paths he could take to resolve this situation with various levels of effectiveness.
The first was to simply go all out and release his androids, using force to subdue the entire world. It would be bloody even if everyone surrendered because, to truly take over, Dante would have to execute everyone part of the previous regime and their families as well as friends.
That's right, in choosing this option, Dante could only walk the path of protagonists that came before him, becoming a fledgling clan genocider.
The second was to make use of his death and wait for the world to settle down. This time, rather than enlighten the world, he would truly take over from the shadows, either replacing people in power with androids he created, chipping them with subordinate chips to make them obey, or using illusions to rewrite their lives as his slaves.
This one was an okay choice, but it was full of uncertainties. With the current state of the world, it would not be the same society that existed after World War II that would emerge. If his AI hadn't stopped those crazy fellows, Earth would have become post-apocalyptic already.
Not to mention that, even more than using the genius path, this one would take a lot of time to implement and would also require a lot of 'maintenance' as leaders changed due to elections/death/etc.
If not for these various problems, the previous regime would have long had Earth under complete control. There would never have been a chance for those two troublemaker countries to exist.
The third option was to announce his existence as the God of Technology and change society. In the beginning, forcefully chip everyone with subordinate chips and let them see their SDIs, making them feel as if they had received systems.
Then after that, implement the famous sectarian contribution point system to make humans achieve tasks he set out. The rewards would be bottom-level technology and things like basic gene enhancers that could raise their stats by one or two points.
By making even the most useless items super expensive, humanity would be stuck working for him like dogs for a long while, and they could even advance and strengthen themselves at a rate Dante completely controlled.
Dante did like this one because not only would it make him not have to waste too much time with humanity, but his base AI could completely coordinate everything and handle humanity according to his instructions while he conquered the universe with his space fleet.
The fourth option was to naturally completely ignore everything and let humanity do as it pleased. Even letting them nuke each other was fine as long as nothing happened to the base, and with the level of interference and shielding it had, naturally nothing would happen.
Dante was not in a rush to make a decision. He was completely annoyed by the events that had transpired and thankful for the quick reaction of his android. Currently, his parents and uncle were at the base living comfortably.
And among Dante's friends, none really showed any value and stood out. Only Valeria, who he had spent most of his sexual encounters with as a young adult, had not come out to join all those girls earlier in denouncing him.
In fact, she had completely disappeared, and Dante could not trace her using technology. This made his eyes narrow, as Dante was not one to ignore such clues, and he remembered that he had once mentally joked that Valeria might be more special than he thought.
Still, it was not much of a big deal. While he did have some feelings for Valeria, her mysterious disappearance was not one of danger, but seemingly abandonment. Whether she had hidden in some faction on Earth or even among the stars, that was up to her as long as she did not become an obstacle.
In fact, what was more pressing was to meet up with his family, pacify them, and let them know some things. They had been very patient and hadn't pushed Dante's android for answers, opting to trust their son/nephew fully.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have abandoned their social lives, their friends, their properties, and belongings and fled here on the first notice from Dante.
Dante breathed out a light sigh and teleported into the lounge area of the Vitality Pools. There he saw his father playing with a holographic screen that showed some interesting tidbits of info about the Eternal Universe, while his mother was crazily going through many formulas and scientific theories that were ahead of the time.
As for his uncle, he was staring at a star chart of the universe with an intoxicated look. The aged man was like a young boy who had found out that there was a big world out there for him to explore.
When they saw Dante appear, they paused. However, Aileen immediately got up and walked over, standing before Dante with her diminutive height and staring him up and down. She then touched his skin, his chest, and his face, looking into his eyes and everything.
"Ugh, mom, it's me," Dante could only say helplessly.
Aileen was surprised. "Well, I initially hoped to be able to find some difference by touch, but then it wouldn't be advanced technology if little old me could see through it so easily."
She then rubbed Dante's face with a smile and held his arms. "How's my darling boy?"
Dante felt emotional. His mother had always been supportive of him all his life, even when he had a small conflict with his dad. She always trusted him and never asked questions, opting to leave Dante to speak himself.
It was not - realistically - the best way to parent because some children would abuse the privilege, but it worked for Dante because he never hid anything from his mother. He was a proud person who didn't like to sneak about when doing things, due to his dad's stoic nature, so he often directly came out with things.
Dante glanced over at his father, who was looking over from the corner of his eye while trying to act like he wasn't interested, and his uncle, who had torn his eyes away from the 'masterpiece' before him to smile at his nephew.
He nodded to them and sat down on a sofa opposite his dad, his mother and uncle coming to sit beside his father as they all trained their eyes on him. Dante glanced at all of them and smiled.
"You guys have seen some basic information about the Eternal universe, so I'll tell you how I got all this. Slightly over 6 months ago, a day before I moved out to my former apartment, an accident occurred similar to those in superhero stories."
"Though, rather than be bit by a spider or be struck by lightning infused with chemicals, I was taken through a quantum tunnel to a whole other universe that is about 8000 years ahead of us in terms of time and development."
"Also, due to the benevolence of a higher-dimensional being - yes, they exist - I retained the ability to go back and forth. Since then, I have been doing just that, establishing myself on that side and accumulating power, influence, and connections, as well as high-level technology."
Dante glanced towards the outside with a strange look. "Meanwhile here… well, you saw what happened. I tried to be the catalyst to induce the next technological revolution, but…"
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